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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 

From Homer to Hafez, Simenon to Spark, Bronte to Baldwin, the Penguin Archives series encompasses the eclectic range of Penguin Classics titles, whether they are Icelandic sagas, ghost stories, satirical essays, ancient philosophy or science fiction 

A slipcase of 90 books with irresistible cover designs, each one riffing uniquely on Penguin’s beloved heritage.

  The series takes us through nine decades of Penguin Books, from the publication of Poe, Austen and Wells in the 1930s to Gaitskill, Ditlevsen and Xiaobo in the 21st century.

 

Full list:

 

The Time Machine    Wells, H. G. The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral    James, M. R. Hop-Frog    Poe, Edgar Allan The New Dress    Woolf, Virginia The History of England by a Partial, Prejudiced and Ignorant Historian    Austen, Jane Night Flight    de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint    Wilde, Oscar Can Socialists be Happy?    Orwell, George Horsie    Parker, Dorothy Odour of Chrysanthemums    Lawrence, D. H. No Coward Soul Is Mine    Brontë, Emily The Chimes    Dickens, Charles The Wrath of Achilles    Homer,  Lady L.    Gary, Romain Hell    Dante The Rich Boy    Scott Fitzgerald, F. Stan the Killer    Simenon, Georges A Dill Pickle    Mansfield, Katherine The Dream of a Ridiculous Man    Dostoyevsky, Fyodor A Hunger-Artist    Kafka, Franz Family Happiness    Tolstoy, Leo The Dreaming Child    Dinesen, Isak Cicada!    Lorca, Federico García Revenge    Nabokov, Vladimir A Short Guide to Towns Without a Past    Camus, Albert The Driver's Seat    Spark, Muriel Reflections in a Golden Eye    McCullers, Carson Ecce Homo    Nietzsche, Friedrich Monkey King Makes Havoc in Heaven    Cheng’en, Wu Lamb to the Slaughter    Dahl, Roald A Moment of War    Lee, Laurie The Genius    O'Connor, Frank The Fire Next Time    Baldwin, James Strange News from Another Planet    Hesse, Hermann Paris France    Stein, Gertrude Why I am a Stoic    Seneca,  The Prose Edda    Sturluson, Snorri Lois the Witch    Gaskell, Elizabeth A Lady in Kyoto    Shonagon, Sei Thousand Cranes    Kawabata, Yasunari Tristessa    Kerouac, Jack A Confirmed Bachelor    Schnitzler, Arthur All God's Chillun Got Pride    Himes, Chester The Burial of the Rats    Stoker, Bram Rescue    Milosz, Czeslaw The Emperor's New Clothes    Andersen, Hans Christian Closely Watched Trains    Hrabal, Bohumil The Seventh Voyage    Lem, Stanislaw Under the Jaguar Sun    Calvino, Italo The Story of an Hour    Chopin, Kate Chess    Zweig, Stefan The Daemon Lover    Jackson, Shirley Transformation    Shelley, Mary The Broken Nest    Tagore, Rabindranath The Seducer’s Diary    Kierkegaard, Søren Sunflower Sutra    Ginsberg, Allen Night Owls    Leskov, Nikolai A Lost Lady    Cather, Willa The Lady Bandit    Bazán, Emilia Pardo Sailing to Byzantium    Yeats, W B The Blazing World    Cavendish, Margaret Some Japanese Ghosts    Hearn, Lafcadio The Country of the Pointed Firs    Jewett, Sarah Orne Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night    Thomas, Dylan For Art and for Life    Van Gogh, Vincent A Dog's Heart    Bulgakov, Mikhail The Price of Freedom    Manto, Saadat Hasan October Nights    de Nerval, Gerard Where Everything is Music    Rumi,  The Shadow out of Time    Lovecraft, H. P. To Read and Dream    Rossetti, Christina The House of Hunger    Marechera, Dambudzo The Escape of Arsène Lupin    Leblanc, Maurice Jasmine Tea    Chang, Eileen Beauty    Warhol, Andy Unpacking My Library    Benjamin, Walter After Midnight    Keun, Irmgard Whatever is Rational is Tolerable    Epictetus,  How I Came to Know Fish    Pavel, Ota An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter    Aira, César I am a Bird From Paradise    Hafez,  The Burned Sinner and the Harmonious Angels    Lispector, Clarice Tales from the Heart    Condé, Maryse Coal    Lorde, Audre Secretary    Gaitskill, Mary The Umbrella    Ditlevsen, Tove Passion    Jordan, June Requiem    Tabucchi, Antonio Baron Bagge    Lernet-Holenia, Alexander The Maverick Pig    Xiaobo, Wang

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